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Cartagena, home of the soccer match of the Absolute Women's National Team against Belgium (11/01/2019)

Spain will face Belgium next Thursday, January 17, in its first game of 2019 that will serve to prepare for the World Cup in France that will take place in June.

It will be played at the Cartagonova Stadium at 7:00 p.m.

The team of coach Jorge Vilda, captained by the player of the Football Club Barcelona, â€‹â€‹Marta Torrejón, comes to Cartagena leader of group, in the absence of a match, which will be played in Alicante against the United States, on January 22, at 20: 30 hours.

Currently, the Women's National Team is fifth in relation to the best football teams in the world.

Two years ago, in the summer of 2017, Spain defeated Belgium clearly by 7-0, but now they are at a good level, and this fact was confirmed in March 2018 when they faced Spain again in the Cyprus Cup, a Cup that took Jorge Vilda's painting.

That draw demonstrates the great quality jump of the Belgian side.

In the presentation of the game, in the City of Cartagena, attended by the mayor Ana Belén Castejón, the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Adela Martínez Cachá, the president of the Football Club Cartagena, Francisco Belmonte, and the president of the Federation of Soccer of the Region of Murcia, José Miguel Monje Carrillo.

"It's great news for Cartagena.

It is the first time that the Women's Absolute Soccer Team plays in the municipality "besides the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, added that" it makes us not only feel proud but also makes us show that the female sport is emerging and that Cartagena is part of this process "

"Happy that the Women's Team arrives in Cartagena because it will allow us to make the girls feel that Cartagena, Cartagena and Cartagena, we believe in women's sports and we also believe in our Spanish National Team" highlighted the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Adela Martínez Cachá, referring to the soccer match on Thursday, where the players will feel "the warmth of all Cartagena."

The players will arrive in Cartagena on Tuesday, January 15, at noon and will stay at the Alfonso XIII hotel.

The following day, on January 16, they will hold open-door training at the stadium at 6:00 p.m. and then sign t-shirts, flags and photos to the children who come to see them.

"What I like most that the Spanish Federation is accepting in the world of women is that after the games the Women's National Team usually decides to stay in the field so that all the boys and all the girls who are watching the match can go down to take pictures with them.

Which is very nice since we are in the field of the game "has qualified the president of the Football Federation of the Region of Murcia, José Miguel Monje Carrillo.

Although the game will be broadcast on television, it will put on sale 5,000 tickets, of which, according to the president of Fútbol Club Cartagena, Francisco Belmonte, "2,500 tickets can be obtained with the membership card of this team" .